Drawer stop and guide



(No Model.)

H. E. SPAUNHORST. DRAWER STOP AND GUIDE.

No. 480,861. I Patented Aug. 1-6, 18921 0. .0 Eobkg Hem 5 nitora? x THENonms Perms co. mo'ro-umm, wnsmmrou, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY E. SPAUNHORST, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

DRAWER STOP AND GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,861, dated August16, 1892. Application filed December 21, 1891. Serial No. 415,732, (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. SPAUNHORST, of the city of St. Louis andState of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements ina Combined Drawer Stop and Guide, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in a combined stop and guide; andit consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts, as willbe more fully hereinafter de scribed, and designated in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of myinvention as applied to a desk and drawer. Fig. 2 is a top plan view ofthe guide bar or plate forming a part of my invention. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the slide detached, and Fig. 4 is a verticalcross-section taken on the line a w of Fig. 1.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel, simplified, andinexpensive drawer stop and guide which can be easily and quicklyattaohed to an ordinary desk and drawer or other furniture, and whenapplied in the manner as shown in Fig. 1 the said drawer will beprevented from being displaced or withdrawn from the desk.

My invention is preferably constructed of hard wood; but other materialmay be substituted without departing from the nature of my invention.

By the use of my invention the drawerof the desk will be guided and willnot bind against the ordinary guide for the same, and, further, providea suitable stop in either movement of the drawer.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents an ordinary desk having braces 2and legs or supports 3.

4 represents the guide plate or bar which forms a part of my inventionand which is of sufiicient length, in order that it can be easilyattached to the cross-pieces 2 of the desk.

5 represents a block of wood secured to therear cross-piece 2 of thedesk and to which is secured one end of the guide-plate 4. The oppositeend of said guide-plate is provided with projecting ends 6, which endsrest upon the upper surface of the front cross-piece 2 and are united tothe same. By the construction of the extension 6 the drawer 7 isprovided with a stop when the same is entirely closed.

8 represents a dovetailed groove formedi n the said guide-plate 4, whichextends the entire length of said plate, within which the dovetailedslide 9 is adapted to freely move. Formed in the bottom of the saidguide-plate 4 isa vertical longitudinal slot 10, which is of sufficientlength to allow the drawer 7 to be opened to its full extent.

Through the slide 9 and adjacent to the bottom of the same is formed adovetailed groove 11, which extends transversely across the same, whichgroove receives the corresponding dovetailed metallic plate 12, the samebeing of suitable size and dimensions from end to end, in order thatwhen the said plate is properlyinserted in said slide the ends of thesaid plate 12 will be flush with the bevel sides of said guide.

In Fig. 3 the plate 12 is shown partially drawn out of the slide 9, inorder to more properly show the construction of the same; but inpractice, however, the said plate will be pushed entirely in, as shownin the cross-section, Fig. i.

13 represents a vertical opening formed in the slide 9 immediately abovethe dovetailed groove 11, which opening corresponds with thescrew-threaded opening 14:, formed in the metallic plate 12 when thesaid plate is in its normal position, as shown in Fig. l.

In orderto secure the drawer? to the guide, as above described, I employthe means as hereinafter more specifically described.

15 represents a vertical opening formed in the bottom of the drawer,through which a screw 16 is adapted to be passed, premising however,that a metallic washer 17 is placed between the head of the said screwand the upper surface of the bottom of the drawer,in order to protectthe said drawer and receive the wear which would otherwise be brought tobear upon the same.

The screw 16, when properly applied,will be inserted into the verticalopening 15, formed in the bottom of the drawer, as above stated, and bythe use of a proper tool-such as a screw-driverthelowerscrew-threadedend of the said screw is turned into the screw-threaded opening 14,formed in the plate 12, and the parts properly united.

The screw 16 is of sufiicient length so that when the parts are united,as shown in Fig. 1, the lower end of, the said screw will project intothe slot 10, formed in the guide-plate 4. By this construction when thedrawer is completely closed the projecting end of the screw 16 willstrike the rear termination of the slot 10, and at the same time thefront 18 of the drawer will simultaneously strike the proj ections 6,forming a part of the guide-plate 4.. When the drawer is completelyopened, the said projecting end of the screw 16 will be .brought againstthe forward termination of the said slot 10 and thereby prevent the saiddrawer from being entirely withdrawn from the desk.

By empirical knowledge I have found that the construction as abovedescribed answers all the purposes designed of its use, and that thesame can be easily applied to a desk by an unskilled person, as itsapplication can be ascertained at a mere glance.

I am aware that dovetail guide-plateshave been heretofore employedhaving a dovetail slide working therein, and I am also aware that it isnot. broadly new to set a metallic plate having a screw-threadedaperture into wood for the purpose of securing a firm hold for a screwor bolt. To such features I therefore lay no broad claim, my inventionconsisting in the combination and arrangement of the various elements,as set forth in the following claims.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is-- 1. Iheherein-described drawer stop and guide, consisting of a guide-plateprovided with a longitudinal slot 10, closed at its ends, a guideworking in said guide-plate, and an attaching pin or screw 16, adaptedto pass through the guide and engage the slot 10, whereby saidprojecting end of the pin or screw contacts with the respective closedends of the slot when the drawer is opened and closed and acts as a stopfor limiting the movement of the drawer, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a receptacle and a drawer sliding therein, of afixed guideplate provided with a longitudinal slot 10, a guide workingin said guide-plate, and a pin or screw 16, securing said guide to thebottom of the drawer and projecting downwardly into the slot 10, for thepurpose described.

3. The combination, with a receptacle provided with. the front and rearcross-pieces 2, the latter cross-piece having a recessed block 5 securedat its front edge, and a drawer sliding within said receptacle, of aguide-plate 4, secured at its rear end to the block 5 and having at itsforward end projections 6 6, over-

